AboutRoss Campbell Expertise I am able to provide answers to questions about the Administration of the New World Order which the Baha`i Faith heralds; why that administration is different than any previous government in history, and why it cannot and will not fail but rather will fully accomplish all that is written in Holy Prophecy.
Experience Experience in the area: I have been examining the Baha'i Faith for more than 6 years. I have visited more than 300 different Christian churches during the past 6+ years.
Expert: Ross Campbell Date: 9/26/2006 Subject: spiritual principles
Question I am interested in this concept of new organizations for the government and religion (Administration of the New World Order). I would imagine it would take love and spiritual maturity to attain something like this. I am also certain that it would take an advanced study of your faith to know that this new government cannot fail. I had heard through the Baha'i faith that there are 275 spiritual principles. Would you be able to do some research and find out where that information is? I have looked through the Baha'i literature but have not been able to find it. Needless to say the reason I am looking for it is to find out what the principles are. My question is: What are the 275 spiritual principles? If you can't find it don't feel bad I have asked other people of the Baha'i faith and they were not able to help. In fact most of them never got back to me on it so I am already use to that. :) I know it is a hard question and most people will shy away from it especially if they haven't heard this about their faith so don't feel disappointed if you can't find it.
Answer Dear Randall,
Thank you for your question. It seems to me that if there are 275 spiritual principles, many of those principles must necessarily be variations of other principles. There do not exist in the Universe 275 different spiritual principles. The principle stated by His Holiness the Christ, "You must love your neighbor as yourself", has a million or millions of different applications in real life, yet the principle is just one only. Specific rules are not principles. In the Baha'i Faith, for example, there exists a rule/law revealed by 'Abdu'l-Baha' instructing each Guardian of the Baha'i Faith to choose and appoint his successor during his own life-time. That specific rule is delineated in the sacred and immutable Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha'. That is not a principle, it is a rule/law. That rule, however is an application of the hereditary principle inherent in the Baha'i Faith, which provides for the hereditary continual flow of Divine guidance for humankind during this Millennium.
I am including below some principles provided by 'Abdu'l-Baha'. If all women and men were to try sincerely and diligently to adhere to those principles their commitment and efforts to obey those principles would generate the "love and spiritual maturity" which you mentioned, adequately to create paradise on Earth.
We do not see such spiritual maturity evident at this time.
If you discover a list of 275 spiritual principles, please inform me. rosscampbell@shaw.ca
Cordially,
Ross
Words of 'Abdu'l-Baha':
To be kind to all people and to love them with a pure spirit.
Should opposition or injury happen to us, to bear it, to be as kind as ever can be, and through all, to love the people.
Should calamity exist in the greatest degree, to rejoice, for these things are the gifts and favors of God.
To be silent concerning the faults of others, to pray for them, and to help them, through kindness, to correct their faults.
To look always at the good and not at the bad. If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, look at the ten and forget the one. And if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
Never to allow ourselves to speak one unkind word about another, even though that other be our enemy.
To do all of our deeds in kindness.
To cut our hearts from ourselves and from the world.
To be humble.
To be servants of each other, and to know that we are less than anyone else.
To be as one soul in many bodies, for the more we love each other, the nearer we shall be to God; but to know that our love, our unity, our obedience must not be by confession, but of reality.
To act with cautiousness and wisdom.
To be truthful.
To be hospitable.
To be reverent.
To be the cause of healing for every sick one,
a comforter for every sorrowful one,
a pleasant water for every thirsty one.
a heavenly table for every hungry one,
a star to every horizon,
a light for every lamp,
a herald to everyone who yearns for the kingdom of God"
`Abdu'l-Bahá
